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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 263.
Ghost, mystery film
After the death of her close childhood friend, 17-year-old Sarah Landon (Rissa Walters) goes to visit her friend's grandmother, Thelma Shaw (Jane Harris), in the small town of Pine Valley, California. Upon arriving in Pine Valley, Sarah's car starts making strange noises, and she stops at the repair shop. While there, she talks with the owner and learns of a story involving a local family and asks Mrs.
Crime
Jimmy Smigelski, living near the docks of Brooklyn, is quick to help when a neighborhood girl, Della, and her little brother are menaced by some thugs. Joe Brindo, a racketeer Jimmy's honest father Pete blames for an incident that crippled him, is impressed by Jimmy and takes him under his wing. Jimmy is caught in a rivalry between two local gangs.
Biography, Crime
A film based on the true story of a notorious Italian criminal. Roberto Succo was a psychiatric patient who murdered his parents and embarked on a crime spree across Europe in the 1980s. He committed multiple violent crimes, including armed robberies, kidnappings, and murders, and evaded capture across several countries, including France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, Noir
While on the verge of being divorced, Norma Craig disappears. Seven years later, when her husband Larry Craig is planning to marry Vicki McGuire, Norma returns and tells Vicki that neither she nor anybody else can marry Larry. After Norma is found dead, both the young woman and her fiancé find themselves mixed up with a crooked nightclub owner, whom the police suspect of the murder.
Crime, Noir
Detective Ray Williams (Michael O'Shea) is recuperating from a broken rib as his wife Ann (Julie Bishop) tries to persuade him to get a desk job, especially with their new baby on the way. However, a call from the police inspector (Robert Shayne) informs him that homicidal criminal "Red" Kluger (whom Ray apprehended) has escaped from Folsom Prison. As Ray is about to leave in his police car, he is kidnapped by Kluger (Charles McGraw) and his men.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Roy Turner, a mental patient with a violent past, is prematurely released from a state mental hospital because of overcrowding. His psychiatrist advises him to avoid stressful situations. Realizing that he cannot handle the pressures of big-city life, he moves into a beach-side motel in a small coastal town in Southern California and falls in love with Susan Mayes, the daughter of the motel's owner, Loren.
Comedy
Slip loses job after job due to his quick temper, much to the distress of his sister, Mary. Slip applies for a job with Herbert Sayers, Mary's boss. Slip is sure that he will be an executive but he is ordered to work shovelling dirt on a construction site.
Crime, Drama
A federal agent goes undercover in a prison to infiltrate the circle of a criminal and gain information about him and his gang. He gains his confidence and the two take part of an escape together. On the outside they encounter the criminal's sister who naively sees her brother as a petty thief who can be reformed rather than the hardened murderer he really is.
Crime, Drama
A United States Department of the Treasury agent works against smugglers on the border between Spain and France. He has a personal interest as his brother who was part of the gang was murdered by them. The gang smuggles watches into Spain and brings counterfeit American money into England that is used to buy gold that is melted down and shipped to Continental Europe.
Crime
The Blue Star of the Nile is stolen from an exhibition guarded by the police under Inspector Farraday. Under intense pressure from the police commissioner to recover the diamond, Farraday tells reporters, among them Dorothy Anderson, that he is sure Boston Blackie is responsible. However, he does not really believe that; it is only a ruse.
Crime, Drama
London crime boss Jimmy the Gent travels to Southend in Essex to collect some monies owed to him by local gangster Shrewd Eddie. There, various assorted gangsters, corrupt police and petty criminals attempt to steal from Jimmy a case containing £1 million in cash.
Crime, Drama
Art Brooks and Kelly Moore are a couple who get married. But Kelly realizes that Art is an alcoholic, and he beats her. She starts a relationship with the lawyer Richard Linsky.
Crime
Nightclub singer Sharon Winslow tells a detective, Jerry Devery, that her husband owes gambler Joe Sapphire a lot of money and fears he will be killed. Sapphire insists to the cop that the debt has been paid in full, but when Sharon's husband is found dead, suspicion understandably falls on Sapphire. It turns out the dead man left a suicide note, but Sharon and her lover, her husband's business partner Stephen Mason, destroy the note so that Sharon can claim it was a murder and collect the insurance money.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film
New York attorney William Boyals has escaped the Louisiana bayou of his childhood, but he must return to investigate the death of a childhood friend who, like Boyals himself, was both black and gay.
Crime, Drama
The titular character is a temperamental but lovable retired London barrister now living in the country with his granddaughter Virginia. Ernest Heron, Virginia's beau, returns from South Africa with a valuable diamond, and that night he is attacked and the gem is stolen. The only clue to the perpetrator's identity is a camellia Ernest is found clutching in his hand.
Action, Crime
Arnold Ramsey has two grown children, Dorothy and Ernest, who hate Ramsey's second wife Eleanor who has money of her own, but refuses to spend it on supporting their lavish lifestyles. Eleanor meets with private detective Mike Shayne to hire him to investigate threatening letters she has been receiving. In flashback the viewer sees the details of her home situation.
Crime
New York City Chief of Detectives Mc Gowan gets a tip that the notorious international jewel thief the Lone Wolf is after the Bancroft pearls that very night. He assigns Benson to the case, even though nobody knows who the Lone Wolf is; only former Inspector Crane even had a clue. The Lone Wolf has no trouble taking the necklace, but then he spots policemen surrounding the mansion.
Crime
On the train to the seaside resort of Brighthaven, Richard Rollinson is sharing a carriage with an attractive young lady called Susan Lancaster. The journey is rudely interrupted when the window of the carriage is shattered by a barrage of bullets. Richard learns from the shaken Susan that she is on her way to join an uncle on holiday, and offers to escort her safely to her hotel.
Crime
Upon arriving in the small town of Monroe, Michigan, a young man secures a job at a department store. Despite this, he is inexplicably drawn to observe fires, which leads to suspicion when a series of arson attacks plague the town, making him the prime suspect.
Crime
Four strung out meth-addicts - Donald (Bledsoe), Kari (Moore), David (Pelphrey) and Spot (Doran) – are desperately craving for their next fix of meth. Short on cash, the group discusses a variety of options including sending Kari to exploit their dealer's fondness for her. After some debate, the group decides to sends David, their leader and designated driver, to meet with their longtime dealer Tai (Ruivivar).
Crime, prison film
Jean Forest gets in a relationship with criminal Larry Harrison, even though she is advised not to, he wants to elope to Canada and Jean gives up her job to go with him. On the way they are arrested for a small crime and Harrison pleads guilty in hope of going to a local farm prison, but it turns out to be a brutal penal colony.
Drama
Robert "Silky" Kilmount, an ex-Chicago bootlegger, has opened up a legal distillery with the end of Prohibition. To remedy the ill doings of his past, he hires Quentin "Doc" Ramsey as manager of his company. Seven years ago, Silky got Doc sent to prison after framing him for a crime he didn't commit.
Crime, Noir
U.S. Customs Department Agent Cliff Holden's (Dean Jagger) childhood best friend and boss is murdered while chasing down jewel thieves. He's assigned to find the thieves and solve the murder.
Action, Crime, Noir
An undercover agent (Howard Duff) attacks an illicit Mexican border immigrant smuggling operation.